Trackman's Car Patents (Class 105/162)
  • Patent number: 10717452
    Abstract: A handcart for manually conveying objects on a pair of railroad rails includes a first structure having a first end and a second end, the first end having a first opening therein, a second structure attached to the first support bar such that a frame is formed between the first and second structures by one or more crossbeams, and a first wheel assembly having a first wheel and a first axle extending therefrom, the first axle detachably locked via the first axle positioned in the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventor: Myles E. Paisley
  • Patent number: 4356773
    Abstract: A motorized track car with a wheeled lower portion for rolling along a railroad track, and a platform carried by the wheeled lower portion. The platform has seating accommodation for one or more persons with the propulsion means for the vehicle disposed below the platform. The propulsion means consists of an internal combustion engine drivingly connected to hydraulic pump means providing fluid pressure for hydraulic motors drivingly associated with wheels of the car. There is control valve means operable by a person seated on the platform to control flow of hydraulic fluid for the pump and motor to vary the speed of travel of the vehicle from zero to maximum in each of forward and backward directions of travel. There is brake means operatively associated with at least one wheel of the track car and operable from the platform and, preferably, by a single lever control which also operates the control valve means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Queen's University at Kingston
    Inventor: Lawrence A. J. van Eyken